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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

V.S. Naipaul

I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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